“They got two weeks done,” he said. “I was waiting in London for my stuff to start and then it became apparent it was going to close down in a day or two.

“I got a flight to Perth, made it as far as Sydney and got into the quarantine thing.”

He went on: “We'll start as soon as we can. We're supposed to be in London but it's a complete mess at the moment. I'd like to think that maybe we could start or restart in this part of the world and then finish off in the studio.

Jurassic World (Credit: Universal)

“We're using the Bond stage [at Pinewood] to build these enormous sets in London. They'd like to use those, ideally, but if nothing is happening there, I don't know when we can get started.”

Filming had started on the movie in February, in Vancouver, with other locations in Malta, Hawaii and Hawley Common in Hampshire.

But the film was put on a hiatus on 13 March, 10 days prior to the UK's full lockdown.